all too often we as Christians think: oh i'd better not offend someone, because what would they think of my religion? what would they think of my "witness" for Christ? what would someone take away from my conversation? would it be for the benefit of Christianity? would it be for the betterment of my religion?

i tend not to think about these things. i haven't found in the new testament once where the Lord Christ asked Himself: "oh snap. i'd better not do this or that... I don't want this new movement that I am the kingpin of to fail. but what i do see Him doing is challenging the status quo. i see Him changing the way things were by dynamic spiritual reform. i see Him turning over tables for those jewish temple mafia who used extortion as a means of religion. i see him telling the modern day preachers and "church-workers" that they were snakes. i see Him telling all of them that there is NO HOPE except what He is offering.

and i see Him telling those around Him that He did not come to bring peace but a sword. to divide households. to change dynamically the "way things were" and to force a new opinion on life and the universe around those that followed Him. and follow Him they did. when He taught that we are blessed when we are poor, that we are blessed when we are persecuted for Him, that we are blessed when we let others beat us up. we are blessed for being the foolishness in this worlds eyes to obtain righteousness in His eyes.

and from the dawn of time until His crucifixion He preached this. He taught it to ezekial in his preincarnate form when He was seated above the cherubim. He taught it to abram in the desert, and to shadrach, meshack and abednego in the furnace. and He still teaches.

teaches us that His way is not our way. pride is sin, wealth is suspect and anything that is not of Him is against Him.

so what then?

challenge me for judging. challenge me for saying that something is wrong. i tell you the truth, the one who formed the framework of the two quarks that smashed into eachother to create the big bang is the same one who directed that big bang in the end to place everything to go where it should go. the one who hung the stars, as it were, in place is the one who brought me into this world to follow Him.

and follow i do, and follow i must.

so when you tell me that when boys place their penises into other boys poop-chutes i will tell you that it isn't the perfect plan. when you tell me that fathers finger rape their daughters it isn't right. when tornadoes rip thru and kill little kids in a hallway in oklahoma it isn't right. and when the great great great grandparents of those little children shot and stabbed native americans it isn't right.

but there are a lot of things not right and right in the world.

the tree that was life grew in the garden of eden and still grows out of this dimension and will grow again in the new heaven and new earth. that tree is the transcarnate idea of wholeness that we were meant to grow into. love, peace, patience, wholeness, gentleness, meekness, self-control. these things have no law against them and are destined to be placed into our hearts when we are released from this mortal coil.

there is good in people and bad in people. God cares for you and is ever mindful of your fears and trepidations. call out to Him in your time of need. love Him with all of your heart and soul and mind and strength and love your neighbors like you love yourself. this is the summation of all of the law and the prophets from the law of hammurabi until today and perfectly indwelling in the pentateuch and the old testament. love is the answer.

The World According to Monsanto is a 2008 film directed by Marie-Monique Robin. Originally released in French as Le monde selon Monsanto, the film is based on Robin's three-year long investigation into the corporate practices around the world of the United States multinational corporation, Monsanto.[1] The World According to Monsanto is also a book written by Marie-Monique Robin, winner of the Rachel Carson Prize (a Norwegian prize for female environmentalists),[2]which has been translated into many languages. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_According_to_Monsanto

Corporate politics is business as usual inside the United States, as I am once again shocked to report the EPA has sided with industry lobbyists over public health in approving a highly dangerous pesticide that the European Union recently decided to ban over fears of environmental devastation. Not only have neonicotinoid pesticides been linked repeatedly to mass bee deaths, also known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), but the continued use of such pesticides threatens other aspects of nature (and humans) as well.

What’s even more amazing is that the decision not only comes after the EU publicly discussed the major dangers surrounding the use of the pesticides, but after the USDA released a report surrounding the continued honeybee deaths and the related effects — a report in which they detailed pesticides to be a contributing factor. Just the impact on the honeybees alone, and we now know that these pesticides are killing aquatic life and subsequently the birds that feed upon them, amounts to a potential $200 billion in global damages per year. We’re talking about the devastation of over 100 crops, from apples to avocados and plums.

And there’s countless scientists and a large number of environmental science groups speaking out on this. The EPA has no lack of information the subject. And sure, there are other contributing factors to bee deaths, there’s no question about that. We have an environment right now being hit with Monsanto’s Roundup even in residential areas, we have chemical rain, we have insane amounts of EMF — but it’s pretty clear that neonicotinoid pesticides are at least a major contributing factor. And beyond that, they have no place in the food supply to begin with.

The Pesticide Action Network (PAN) details the EU ban that came right before the EPA acceptance of the death-linked pesticide:

“The EU vote comes after significant findings by the European Food Safety Agency that these pesticides pose an unacceptable risk to bees and their use should be restricted. Along with habitat loss and pathogens, a growing body of science points to neonicotinoid pesticides as a key factor in drastically declining bee populations.”

So why are they approving this pesticide to now pollute the United States in what potentially amounts to an even larger capacity than the EU? A move that will ultimately escalate the price of food worldwide due to the likely nature of continued bee deaths and subsequent crop impact? That’s the power of phony corporate science.

While there have been no new military attacks on Syria since Sunday morning, something more peculiar happened in the past few hours, when according to Akamai and various other Internet traffic trackers, Syria has literally gone “dark“, or, as Umbrella Security Labs describes it, as if “Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet.”

At around 18:45 UTC OpenDNS resolvers saw a significant drop in traffic from Syria. On closer inspection it seems Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet.

The graph below shows DNS traffic from and to Syria. Although Twitter remains relatively silent, the drop in both inbound and outbound traffic from Syria is clearly visible. The small amount of outbound traffic depicted by the chart indicates our DNS servers trying to reach DNS servers in Syria.

Currently both TLD servers for Syria, ns1.tld.sy and ns2.tld.sy are unreachable. The remaining two nameservers sy.cctld.authdns.ripe.net. and pch.anycast.tld.sy. are reachable since they are not within Syria.

The Umbrella Security Labs also reported on an Internet blackout in Syria November of 2012, where we shared details of the top 10 most failed domains during the outage.

Update: 1:28 p.m. PDT

There have been numerous incidents where access to and from the Internet in Syria was shut down. Shutting down Internet access to and from Syria is achieved by withdrawing the BGP routes from Syrian prefixes. The graph below shows the sudden drop in visibility for Syrian network prefixes.

How it happened:

Routing on the Internet relies on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). BGP distributes routing information and makes sure all routers on the Internet know how to get to a certain IP address. When an IP range becomes unreachable it will be withdrawn from BGP, this informs routers that the IP range is no longer reachable.

For example, one of the name servers for the DNS zone .SY is ns1.tld.sy with IP address 82.137.200.85.

Normally our routers would expect a BGP route for 82.137.192.0/18

Currently that route has disappeared and we no longer have a way to reach the Nameservers for .SY that reside in Syria

And in parallel news, we are hearing unconfirmed reports that mobile connections have been cut off as well.

Did Assad simply forget to pay his country’s DNS (and cell) bill, or is this a preamble to putting Syria in the “dark” in advance of possible future military escalations? We will provide updates as we see them.

the more and more i study the government of the united states and it's dealings with other governments...

and the small organizations in other countries who are at one time at odds with our government...

and the next minute give money to those small organizations...

for the purposes of OVERTHROWING the government that will not play ball with us or give us what we want.

the more and more i understand that "terrorist" and "freedom fighter" mean the same thing, depending on what news organization is spinning the news.

and it's like this:

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NEWS FLASH! some guys who believe in something who live in an area who are oppressed by someone need guns so that they could do something about this terrible situation! oh. and they are heroes.
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it's all horse-hockey.

these men are handed guns and told to "liberate your country for freedom!" and they do, and then our government tells them that they owe us a favor.

and then we watch in (gasp) shock and amazement at these same people who are now in power... ABUSE that power and hurt others...

and they get a big head from uncle sams gift and think that they did this all on their own and how they could have done this without anyone else, and by allah, we don't need the united states as a matter of fact: FUCK YOU AMERICA they cry...

and in a short span of sometimes four years, sometimes ten years, they are now evil.

but the only thing they really did was show their true intentions.

but... shouldn't we have suspected that? shouldn't the boys at DC or LANGLEY or whoever-actually-runs-the-show actually looked at these men and said: "by golly these men are real bastards." and perchance NOT given them any guns?

maybe?

i pray to God that when i get to them old pearly gates and Gods like: "so pauly. when you found out about all this stuff, what did you do?" i can be like: "pshhh, you know. i told people about it and asked them to stand with me in righteousness and say that it's not ok for a government to support the rape of children."

Yet another Islamic cleric recently made it permissible for the Islamic fighters waging a jihad in Syria—politely known as “the opposition”—to rape the nation’s women.

Salafi Sheikh Yasir al-‘Ajlawni, a Jordanian of origin who lived in Damascus, Syria for 17 years, posted a YouTube video last week where he said he was preparing to issue a “legitimate fatwa” making it legal (in the eyes of Islam) for those Muslims fighting to topple secular president Bashar Assad and install Sharia law to “capture and have sex with” all non-Sunni women, specifically naming Assad’s own sect, the Alawites, as well as the Druze and several others, basically, all non-Sunnis and non-Muslims.

The Sheikh used Islam’s legitimate Arabic term for these hapless, non-Muslim women, melk al-yamin, a phrase that appears in Islam’s sacred book, the Koran, and which is simply a reference to non-Muslim sex-slaves. For example, Koran 4:3 commands Muslim men to “Marry such women as seem good to you, two and three and four… or what your right hands possess.” Islam’s ulema, or “scholars,” are unanimously agreed that “what your right hands possess” is, according to Islamic law, simply a sex-slave. Linguistic evidence further suggests that she is seen more as an animal, a possession than a human—hence this inhuman fatwa.

Jordanian Sheih Yasir al-‘Ajlawni is certainly not the first cleric to legitimize the rape of infidel women in recent times. Calls to capture and rape non-Muslim women are appearing with increasing frequency and from all corners of the Islamic world.

A few months earlier, Saudi preacher Muhammad al-Arifi also issued a fatwa allowing jihadi fighters to engage in “intercourse marriage” with captive Syrian women that lasts for a few hours “in order to give each fighter a turn”—also known as gang-rape.

Then there is Egyptian Sheikh Ishaq Huwaini, who once lectured on how infidel captives, or to use another term from the Koran, ghanima, the “spoils of war,” are to be distributed among the jihadis and taken to “the slave market, where slave-girls and concubines are sold.” He, too, referred to such women as “what your right hands possess,” saying: “You go to the market and buy her, and she becomes like your legal mate—though without a contract, a guardian, or any of that stuff—and this is agreed upon by the ulema…. In other words, when I want a sex-slave, I go to the market and pick whichever female I desire and buy her.”

Indeed, even some Muslim women advocate the enslavement and rape of fellow (non-Muslim) women. Kuwaiti political activist, Salwa al-Mutairi, for instance, is working to see the institution of sex-slavery return. In a video she posted online, she explained how she once asked Islam’s greatest authorities living in the city of Mecca, the city of Islam, about the legality of sex-slavery and how they all confirmed it to be perfectly legitimate. According to Mutairi:

A Muslim state must [first] attack a Christian state—sorry, I mean any non-Muslim state—and they [the women, the future sex-slaves] must be captives of the raid. Is this forbidden? Not at all; according to Islam, sex slaves are not at all forbidden. Quite the contrary, the rules regulating sex-slaves differ from those for free women [i.e., Muslim women]: the latter’s body must be covered entirely, except for her face and hands, whereas the sex-slave is kept naked from the bellybutton on up—she is different from the free woman; the free woman has to be married properly to her husband, but the sex-slave—he just buys her and that’s that.

The Kuwaiti activist went on to offer concrete suggestions: “For example, in the Chechnya war, surely there are female Russian captives. So go and buy those and sell them here in Kuwait; better that than have our men engage in forbidden sexual relations. I don’t see any problem in this, no problem at all.”

One can go on and on with more examples. The point is that last week’s fatwa permitting the jihadi-led “opposition” to target and rape non-Sunni Syrian women is in good company, and certainly not an aberration.

The only aberration seems to be the United States’ wholesale support for self-professed rapists and terrorists—quite laughably, in the name of “democracy.”